and have it unfilled for the rest of ur life with no real pain
2006-10-14 18:50:18 · 11 answers · asked by kid 1 in Health ➔ Dental
If you have a CAVITY in your tooth then the virus plaque is eating away the hard enamel coating of the tooth. Once it pass through that then the interior of the tooth is very easy to eat through. The plaque will continue to eat into the tooth until it totally destroys it. Before that happens though the plaque will reach the very sensitive core creating a toothache.
If you were able to get rid of all the plaque then the cavity might not get worse, but plaque is a virus and very hard to get rid of. Also there is a lot of acids created in your mouth, by your salvia, that answer can't eat away the enamel very well, but the interior of the tooth is much easier for it to destroy.
If you don't treat a cavity then you will get a toothache! You can postpone it, but the toothache will come. But, even worse things can happen.
A cavity is a hole in the tooth and a dentist can drill out the plaque and fill it for around $50. If the hole reaches the soft interior then it hits the nerve and you start to feel pain. If you let this go on for a while then the pain gets greater and the damage increases. When the nerve is hit the damage travels down the nerve into the root of the tooth, and even further.
A root canal is needed to fix the tooth now. The entire nerve and a lot of the interior of the tooth has to be drilled out. The dentist often has to drill into the jawbone. Teeth have 2-4 roots so each root has to be drilled out as well. The price for this is around $300.
So sure you can leave a cavity in your tooth, but it will only get worse, soon you will start to feel pain, and the damage will grow. It will be more expensive to fix, cause you a whole lot more pain, since all of that nerve has to be drilled out, and this is much more expensive.
If you let the cavity continue to grow then the tooth could get infected. Before there were dentists infections like this could actually destroy the jaw or even kill the person.
While the chances of you dieing from a cavity are very slim, if you don't fix it then the problem WILL get worse, the damage will increase, the pain will increase, and the pain to fix the damage will increase. If you are foolish enough to let it go on then you can allow some major damage to happen.
DON'T BE A FOOL GO TO THE DENTIST AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. Get the minor problem fixed before it becomes a big problem, or before it kills you!
2006-10-14 19:11:07 · answer #1 · answered by Dan S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most likely not. Your tooth is surrounded by hard enamel, which encloses a softer but still hard dentin, and a soft pulp which contains nerve endings. Cavities start when acid from plaque starts eating away at the enamel. Eventually, if it is not treated, the cavity will grow larger and penetrate into the dentin, at which point it may start to become sensitive. Should it become so deep that it reaches the pulp, you will probably get a really BAD toothache, and at that point you will most likely need a root canal treatment (where the dentist cleans out the pulp and crown it, REALLY expensive), or if it's really bad, the tooth may been to be pulled.
That's why it's important to get regular dental checkups. I learned this the hard way. I was afraid of the dentist and didn't see one for six years. When I finally saw the dentist I currently see (when one of my teeth cracked), I had to have six cavities filled and two root canals done. Don't make the same mistake.
2006-10-15 02:13:15 · answer #2 · answered by Keith H 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The answer to that question is absolutely not. If you have a hole in the tooth and it remains unfilled you will definately get a rotten tooth out of it and have to have it pulled anyways. The filling costs a lot less and sooner or later you will wish that you had that tooth filled when you have toothache all of the time.
2006-10-15 01:56:14 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I doubt if it will remain unfilled without some sort of pain, unless the nerves are completely dead.
2006-10-15 01:53:38 · answer #4 · answered by D L 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You're gunna get food stuck in there and it's gunna rot the tooth and it'll smell and you might get an infection.
2006-10-15 01:59:22 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i supose as long as the nerves are not exposed
2006-10-15 01:51:41 · answer #6 · answered by sleepwalker69 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not possible. It's gonna KILL YOU some day if you don't get it fixed.
2006-10-15 03:48:18 · answer #7 · answered by Picture Taker 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wouldn't, it will deteriorate sooner or later.
2006-10-15 01:58:41 · answer #8 · answered by bec3tiny 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Eventually it will hurt, like your spelling....
2006-10-15 01:59:17 · answer #9 · answered by hmmm... 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
not unless you have dead nerves.
2006-10-15 01:52:23 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋